Category: Genocide

Dr. Nathan C. Moskowitz is a Renaissance man. He is a neurosurgeon, neuroscientist, painter, inventor, religious scholar, accomplished author, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, and much more (for a complete…

One of the most surprising moments for students in Holocaust courses comes when the class learns that perpetrators were not deranged monsters. The best Holocaust educators guide their students through the pre-conditions that preempted Hitler’s…

Hearings began on October 17, 2014 for Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Samphan and Chea are the most senior surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge (KR), the group responsible for murdering…

The mass annihilation of European Jews from 1939-1945 has taken on many names and each holds a particular nuance. Diverse titles—such as the Holocaust, Shoah, genocide, and Judeocide—used to describe a singular event in history…

By Dr. Jamie Sedgwick According to the Union of International Associations, the number of International Non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) skyrocketed from 955 in 1951 to 66,298 in 2013. An ever-expanding cohort…

Genocide is a universal and shared history. For example, the Holocaust—one of over a hundred recorded genocides—touched every corner of the Earth as nations participated in the war or took in refugees. Despite the far-reaching…

By Sara E. Brown Life Savers Ministries, a Christian organization located in Alabama recently quoted the bible and Adolf Hitler to promote their organization on a billboard in Auburn, Alabama. The advertisement features five children…

By Alexis Herr Genocide scholars often employ the tri-party system of bystander, perpetrator, and victim to navigate the complex field of a community’s activities during genocide. Of the three categories, “bystander” continues to be the…

By Alexis Herr The swastika clad Soldantenkaffee (Soldiers Coffee), a Nazi-themed café in the West Java provincial capitol of Bandung, Indonesia, opened in April 2011. Servers dressed as Waffen-SS soldiers took orders as customers…

By Alexis Herr The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has elected Dr. Stephen Smith, executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation and adjunct professor of religion, the first holder of the…

By Alexis Herr Protesters have flooded the streets of Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, demanding President Omar al-Bashir end his more than 24 year autocracy. Street demonstrations began last week in response to the government’s removal…

By Alexis Herr The Armenian Genocide continues to receive greater recognition thanks in large part to the pioneering efforts of scholars like Turkish historian Taner Akcam whose books prove that the murder of some…